A blog to share security, networking and cloud related technology information as @vCloudernBeer picked up on his search for his destiny in the cloud. (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chowanthony)

Monday, November 30, 2015

Last
night when I apply for the 2016 VMware vExpert program, I realized that I did
not publish for the month of November.This
is the exact opposite of November 2014 where I participated in the “30 blog in
30 days”.

If you
read the description of this blog, it said – “A blog to share security,
networking and cloud related technology information as @vCloudernBeer picked up
on his search for his destiny in the cloud”.

Well
does it mean that I did not pick up anything this month?

That's correct, the answer is NO (double negative).

What have I done?

Actually,
I am learning more and thus I do not have time to write.Blogging is important and it helps me to truly
understand a given subject.And it is
fun to write and to share ideas, knowledge or experiences to the
community.It is for sure a win situation
for me and I hope it is also a win-win situation for me and my audiences.

Another reason that I did not publish any post this month is that being
a software developer for networking equipment, I am trying to find a job that
is cloud related. There are so many
things/skill to pick up and I figure that I have “talked” enough and it is time
for me to “do something”.I need to work
on some project and I need to be proficient in using GitHub for open source
project collaboration.

I told
my wife, to contribute to open source in my situation is just like trying to
learn how to play a musical instrument from YouTube.Everyone has the impression that it is open
source and you just dig in and look at source code and then contribute.What I have found is that understanding the
code and even to make changes is not so difficult since I am a software
developer.What I found difficult is to
create a testing environment to test my changes.Unit testing is very important for software
developers.I am a true support of “Test
Driven Development” methodology.In
practice I may not be able to follow this TDD methodology but I try to test my
code as through as possible.It is very important
for me to create a test environment. I need to pick up more operator skill to augment my software development skill.

Instead
of writing, I tried to follow the step-by-step guide that is available on the
web and try to create for myself test environment for different projects. I ran into equipment problems where I found that my home lab is not quite ready to create a stable open source development and testing environment. This weekend, I will be converting my Dell T-110
that has 16 GB of RAM running Windows 10 from a hard disk to SSD.After that conversion I am going to duel boot
this machine with Windows and Ubuntu 14.04. Well, 16.04 is coming and I better get my
environment up and running soon.

Commitmas

In the
month of December, I will not be publishing blog post much because I will be
participating in a community driven event - #commitmas in which I will learn
along with the community on how to be more proficient in using GitHub.If you are interested also, take a look here and consider joining this community event either to learn, to teach or both at the same time.

vBrownBag (as always) is nice enough to host a series of
special podcasts on different aspects or pro-tips of using GitHub.I will be giving a presentation Dec 30 - Bringing it all Together - Intro to Go. And do join me and see how I did in presentation a boring subject. You can register for the podcast here.